Conference Report – part II A slide from our invited speaker: Elizabeth Deysel. Two weeks ago we held the first EM TTI Annual Conference – due to the current world situation this took place wholly online. Despite this, we bought together our students, academic staff, staff and students from our Partner Universities, Associate Partners, EC Project Officer and Invited Speakers. […]
Conference Report Last week we held the first EM TTI Annual Conference – due to the current world situation this took place wholly online. Despite this, we bought together our students, academic staff, staff and students from our Partner Universities, Associate Partners, EC Project Officer and Invited Speakers. Please see the Event Programme for details of the running order and […]
EM TTI Annual Event 2020 – Invited Speakers Elizabeth Deysel An Overview of Technology for Interpreters – the what and the why? 15.00-16.00 Elizabeth Deysel has been working in the field of interpreting for the past ten years. She is currently employed as an interpreter in the National Parliament of South Africa where she has been interpreting for the past […]
EM TTI Annual Event 2020 23 October 2020 8:45 – 19.00 Confirmed Schedule Time Event 08:45-08:55 Log on to waiting room 08:55-09:00 Welcome from EM TTI Coordinator Professor Ruslan Mitkov 09:00-10:30 Student presentations 10:30-11:00 Project Officer for the European Commission Dagmar Hoepcke 11:00-11:15 Break 11:15-11:30 External Examiners Sharon O’Brien (Dublin City University) Joao Esteves-Ferreira (Tradulex, Switzerland) 11:30-13:00 Presentations from […]
Daniya’s Summer Placement at the Open University of Catalonia . This autumn, I undertook my EM TTI placement with the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) under the supervision of Prof. Antoni Oliver Gonzalez. At the very beginning, Prof. Oliver Gonzalez created a detailed plan of weekly activities for me that matched my academic and professional interests and have hopefully benefitted […]
Elena’s Summer Placement at XTM . My first encounter with the technical side of machine translation (MT) and natural language processing (NLP) was in the scope of EM TTI. Having been in the language services sector for about ten years, I’ve been acquainted with the user-side of various computer-assisted translation (CAT) tools and the increasing importance of MT output; however, […]
Marine’s Summer Placemet with Unbabel . On September 1st, when the beauty of knowledge is celebrated in many countries, I initiated an enriching journey at Unbabel. The placement was constrained to a one-month period, which equals to a longer span in terms of the knowledge and experience gained. As the name of the company implies, it endeavours to “unbabel” […]
Rea’s Summer Placement at Sofita . My first-year summer internship took place in partnership with Sofia-based Sofita Translation agency. Having already interacted with the company as a client when I needed documents translating into Bulgarian to enrol at New Bulgarian University, and given that the placement coordinator for Sofita also happened to be one of my dissertation supervisors and had […]
Polina’s Summer Placement at Mitra . For me EMTTI is the most holistic program available at the moment. It lets you consider your interests and chances. You get an opportunity to try a bit of everything and pick an area of specialisation. You think it’s only about translating? Ha! During our UMA curriculum we tried a wide variety of things. […]
Nadia’s Summer Placement at Mitra . My placement at Mitra Translations, in Sofia (Bulgaria) has started on the 1st of September 2020 and it will last approximately 160 hours over a one month period, which equates to almost four full-time working weeks. As required, part of placement is conducted online and part onsite. I was offered the possibility to undertake […]
